‘We don’t have’ N$3bn for veterans, president says

Government needs close to N$3 billion for veterans’ projects and does not have the money, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says.She blamed the backlog on people who were registered when they should not have been.“It is true we are behind when it comes to veterans’ projects,” Nandi-Ndaitwah said during the question-and-answer session of her town hall meeting with Erongo residents in Mondesa, Swakopmund, on Friday.“The problem is created because when we budgeted, really many people just registered. Some of them were not even supposed to be registered. And that created a serious problem," she admitted.“As we are now, if we go to the list that we are having, we are talking about closer to N$3 billion, and we don’t have it."Projects are therefore being paid slowly as money becomes available, she said.'No answers'A resident had raised the issue with the president, saying Swakopmund veterans have been asking the local veterans affairs office since last year when officials would visit them, without getting an answer.Nandi-Ndaitwah said she would inform the minister and advised veterans to take their concerns to the governor’s office.In August, the ministry said more than 11 000 veterans were still unpaid under the Individual Veterans’ Projects and that it needed about N$1.9 billion to settle them. Cabinet decided in December 2021 to pay out these projects in cash, capped at N$170 000 per veteran.

‘We don’t have’ N$3bn for veterans, president says

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‘We don’t have’ N$3bn for veterans, president says

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